From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 9 17:46:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4721065670 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com (mail-pz0-f202.google.com [209.85.222.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D475E8FC1F for ; Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so2197823pzk.7 for ; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:46:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ct2Yib2+pDFhMOswhHr+IirEIK2WZB4KsGdqnkokI7Q=; b=eVB6JlAfcYSTCuJNwLEH1QZiUyEz71szM7m1BCZIIxyPc4TtHxMKZ0bIydPyxRqkL8 aWYl0IXtfp/XGHMm7C+VC8bBbFI5sxmzqCJ5YGe4ioK7oaVMPMHXZcN5bIBUCqa784fW 9Hib9Qr9hP/dFZCyiIxSolCdbKSweo2IDX7DM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=DTnHLwdHSER7JMyi7c5PxwJqW38PvEW62pxtIXbFbab/7b15Mw3/YObWJ6PrHGnCAm NZV4xfWe6eE3H/8X7osmjaie3RX+K4KhFTl5hEYaMt9UJb6RMAMfv8JbAsFmXXPCkJYn WDx5UNEQyUYLEIhnP7x+WKB9/nOgqIYFSt4qg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.66.24 with SMTP id t24mr14206764wak.39.1257788766642; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:46:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <07c4f4ba46c2c97a1092fe2cc108f375@ringofsaturn.com> References: <07c4f4ba46c2c97a1092fe2cc108f375@ringofsaturn.com> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:46:06 +0000 Message-ID: From: Masoom Shaikh To: Rusty Nejdl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, "questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:46:08 -0000 On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh > wrote: > > Hello, > > Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 > installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I > pkg_add'ed xorg and KDE4, this was painless too. I am very disappointed with > my experience > > problem # 1 > The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have made > the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings -> > Appearance -> Fonts > Hinting -> Full, and there is is one more option, the name i cannot recall > ATM, I have set it to RGB. DPI to 96......this is has worked for all > combination of installs I have used so far, viz KDE3 on FreeBSD-6.x to > KDE4.1.x on FreeBSD-7.x and KDE4.2 on FreeBSD-8.0RC1 > > problem # 2 > I observed that both FreeBSD8.0-RC1 and FreeBSD8.0-RC2, simply freeze due > to no reason. The pain is I don't get a core dump. When it freezes the only > option is to hard boot by reseting the power. This might need more > information to guess the cause. I will give basic info. This is Dell > Inspiron 1525 Laptop, with Intel Core2. My suspect mostly goes to wpi > driver, no proof, just my gut feeling. > > problem # 3 > starting with 8.0 wpi driver no longer is the interface, wlanX is to be > created. this is not news, but every time I manually create the wlan0 > interface and spawn wpa_supplicant. This shuould be automatic, as I have > followed the guidelines of rc.conf(5). I can provide output of > rc_debug="YES" if someone is willing. How can i install all files under /etc > from the source ? > > Masoom Shaikh > > Regarding #2, I suggest disabling ACPI. I also had system freezes > happen on my computer until I did this but this has always been an ongoing > issue with my system and I lose nothing by turning it off. > > Sincerely, > Rusty Nejdl > http://networking.ringofsaturn.com > how do we disable acpi ? is it hw.acpi.disable_on_reboot ? if it is I guess I shud set it to 1 in loader.conf, it still remains 0